Dr Sos Eltis

Name and Title

Dr Sos Eltis

Brasenose Status

Official Fellow

Academic Position

College and University Fellow in English.

Qualifications

M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxon).

Undergraduate and graduate teaching

Victorian and Modern Literature. Special interest in drama.

Research Interests

Oscar Wilde; Victorian and modern drama; performance studies and theatre history; sensation novel, late-Victorian gothic and New Women writing; theatre and politics.

Selected Publications

Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde (Oxford University Press, 1996)

"Corruption of the Blood and Degeneration of the Race: Dracula and Policing the Borders of Gender", in Dracula, ed. John Paul Riquelme (Bedford/ St Martin's Press, 2002), pp.450-465.

"The Fallen Woman on Stage: Maidens, Magdalens and the Emancipated Female", in The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Drama, ed. Kerry Powell (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

"Approaches to teaching Wilde's Plays", in Approaches to Teaching Oscar Wilde, ed. Philip E. Smith, (Modern Languages Association of America, forthcoming 2007/8)

"Private Lives and Public Spaces: Reputation, Celebrity and the Late-Victorian Actress", in Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000, ed Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

"Suffrage, Sex and the Single Girl: the fallen woman in Edwardian Feminist Drama", English Literature in Transition, 50:1 (2007)

"Bringing out the acid: Noël Coward, Harold Pinter, Ivy Compton-Burnett and the uses of camp", Modern Drama (forthcoming, 2008)

Work in Progress

I am currently working on a book on the fallen woman on stage from early nineteenth-century melodramas through to the present day. This project encompasses adaptations of French plays on the London stage, society dramas of the late Victorian and Edwardian period, the rise of the well-made play, Edwardian suffrage drama, early film and plays on homosexuality.

Positions held

English Faculty Chair, 2007-8.

Member of the English Faculty Board.

Convenor, Drama in Performance seminar series (co-convened with Dr Emma Smith and Dr Laurie Maguire)

Senior Member, Oxford University Dramatic Society

Member of the Board, Oxford Playhouse Theatre

Link

www.english.ox.ac.uk